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Book Iterate

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Sharp
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2024-04-09
  • ISBN : 0262551802
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Iterate written by John Sharp and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. Sharp and Macklin have found that failure—often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment—is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. In Iterate, they explain how to fail better. After laying out the four components of creative practice—intention, outcome, process, and evaluation—Sharp and Macklin describe iterative methods from a wide variety of fields. They show, for example, how Radiolab cohosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich experiment with radio as a storytelling medium; how professional skateboarder Amelia Bródka develops skateboarding tricks through trial and error; and how artistic polymath Miranda July explores human frailty through a variety of media and techniques. Whimsical illustrations tell parallel stories of iteration, as hard-working cartoon figures bake cupcakes, experiment with levitating office chairs, and think outside the box in toothbrush design (“let's add propellers!”). All, in their various ways, use iteration to transform failure into creative outcomes. With Iterate, Sharp and Macklin offer useful lessons for anyone interested in the creative process. Case Studies: Allison Tauziet, winemaker; Matthew Maloney, animator; Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab cohosts; Wylie Dufresne, chef; Nathalie Pozzi, architect, and Eric Zimmerman, game designer; Andy Milne, jazz musician; Amelia Bródka, skateboarder; Baratunde Thurston, comedian; Cas Holman, toy designer; Miranda July, writer and filmmaker

Book Iterate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Reich
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2023-09-20
  • ISBN : 1119913500
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Iterate written by Justin Reich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovate and implement new, effective ways of teaching in your school In Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools, veteran educator, MIT professor, and incorrigible innovator Justin Reich delivers an insightful bridge between contemporary educational research and classroom teaching, showing you how to leverage the cycle of experiment and experience to create a compelling and engaging learning environment. In the book, you'll learn how to employ a process of continuous improvement and tinkering to develop exciting new programs, activities, processes, and designs. The author draws on over two decades of experience with educators, education researchers, and school leaders to explain how to apply the latest advances in the academic literature to your school, classroom, or online/hybrid course. You'll also find: Complimentary access to two popular courses archived at the MIT Open Learning Library: Launching Innovation in Schools and Design Thinking for Leading and Learning Insights grounded in extensive scholarly experience in design and innovation from Prof. Reich and the MIT Teaching Systems Lab Strategies for combining the most effective evidence-based teaching methods with the flexibility and creativity displayed by schools during the COVID-19 pandemic An invaluable strategic playbook for innovative teaching, Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools is perfect for PK-12 school and district leaders, teacher leaders, and educators.

Book Iterate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ed Muzio
  • Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 0999191322
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Iterate written by Ed Muzio and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iterative Management Is Nimble Management ​This book is a guide to the iterative organization, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today’s world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, it describes the fundamental behaviors that create iteration, explains how to implement them, and includes videos and online assessment to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well. Ed Muzio, award-winning author, CEO, and “one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice,” provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. This book enables senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives to equip their teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions. Iterate will help readers create measurable business results on any management team, of any size, in any industry where complex work and frequent change are the norm.

Book Iterate

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Sharp
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 026203963X
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Iterate written by John Sharp and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation. Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. Sharp and Macklin have found that failure—often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment—is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. In Iterate, they explain how to fail better. After laying out the four components of creative practice—intention, outcome, process, and evaluation—Sharp and Macklin describe iterative methods from a wide variety of fields. They show, for example, how Radiolab cohosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich experiment with radio as a storytelling medium; how professional skateboarder Amelia Bródka develops skateboarding tricks through trial and error; and how artistic polymath Miranda July explores human frailty through a variety of media and techniques. Whimsical illustrations tell parallel stories of iteration, as hard-working cartoon figures bake cupcakes, experiment with levitating office chairs, and think outside the box in toothbrush design (“let's add propellers!”). All, in their various ways, use iteration to transform failure into creative outcomes. With Iterate, Sharp and Macklin offer useful lessons for anyone interested in the creative process. Case Studies: Allison Tauziet, winemaker; Matthew Maloney, animator; Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab cohosts; Wylie Dufresne, chef; Nathalie Pozzi, architect, and Eric Zimmerman, game designer; Andy Milne, jazz musician; Amelia Bródka, skateboarder; Baratunde Thurston, comedian; Cas Holman, toy designer; Miranda July, writer and filmmaker

Book Iterate Or Die

Download or read book Iterate Or Die written by Eric Berridge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iteration Theory and its Functional Equations

Download or read book Iteration Theory and its Functional Equations written by Roman Liedl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iteration Theories

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  • Author : Stephen L. Bloom
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 3642780342
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Iteration Theories written by Stephen L. Bloom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contains the results of our joint research over the last ten years on the logic of the fixed point operation. The intended au dience consists of graduate students and research scientists interested in mathematical treatments of semantics. We assume the reader has a good mathematical background, although we provide some prelimi nary facts in Chapter 1. Written both for graduate students and research scientists in theoret ical computer science and mathematics, the book provides a detailed investigation of the properties of the fixed point or iteration operation. Iteration plays a fundamental role in the theory of computation: for example, in the theory of automata, in formal language theory, in the study of formal power series, in the semantics of flowchart algorithms and programming languages, and in circular data type definitions. It is shown that in all structures that have been used as semantical models, the equational properties of the fixed point operation are cap tured by the axioms describing iteration theories. These structures include ordered algebras, partial functions, relations, finitary and in finitary regular languages, trees, synchronization trees, 2-categories, and others.

Book Regularization of Ill Posed Problems by Iteration Methods

Download or read book Regularization of Ill Posed Problems by Iteration Methods written by S.F. Gilyazov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iteration regularization, i.e., utilization of iteration methods of any form for the stable approximate solution of ill-posed problems, is one of the most important but still insufficiently developed topics of the new theory of ill-posed problems. In this monograph, a general approach to the justification of iteration regulari zation algorithms is developed, which allows us to consider linear and nonlinear methods from unified positions. Regularization algorithms are the 'classical' iterative methods (steepest descent methods, conjugate direction methods, gradient projection methods, etc.) complemented by the stopping rule depending on level of errors in input data. They are investigated for solving linear and nonlinear operator equations in Hilbert spaces. Great attention is given to the choice of iteration index as the regularization parameter and to estimates of errors of approximate solutions. Stabilizing properties such as smoothness and shape constraints imposed on the solution are used. On the basis of these investigations, we propose and establish efficient regularization algorithms for stable numerical solution of a wide class of ill-posed problems. In particular, descriptive regularization algorithms, utilizing a priori information about the qualitative behavior of the sought solution and ensuring a substantial saving in computational costs, are considered for model and applied problems in nonlinear thermophysics. The results of calculations for important applications in various technical fields (a continuous casting, the treatment of materials and perfection of heat-protective systems using laser and composite technologies) are given.

Book Semantics of Belief Change Operators for Intelligent Agents  Iteration  Postulates  and Realizability

Download or read book Semantics of Belief Change Operators for Intelligent Agents Iteration Postulates and Realizability written by K. Sauerwald and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the core problems in artificial intelligence is the modelling of human reasoning and intelligent behaviour. The representation of knowledge, and reasoning about it, are of crucial importance in achieving this. This book, Semantics of Belief Change Operators for Intelligent Agents: Iteration, Postulates, and Realizability, addresses a number of significant research questions in belief change theory from a semantic point of view; in particular, the connection between different types of belief changes and plausibility relations over possible worlds is investigated. This connection is characterized for revision over general classical logics, showing which relations are capturing AGM revision. In addition, those classical logics for which the correspondence between AGM revision and total preorders holds are precisely characterized. AGM revision in the Darwiche-Pearl framework for belief change over arbitrary sets of epistemic states is considered, demonstrating, especially, that for some sets of epistemic states, no AGM revision operator exists. A characterization of those sets of epistemic states for which AGM revision operators exist is presented. The expressive class of dynamic limited revision operators is introduced to provide revision operators for more sets of epistemic states. Specifications for the acceptance behaviour of various belief-change operators are examined, and those realizable by dynamic-limited revision operators are described. The iteration of AGM contraction in the Darwiche-Pearl framework is explored in detail, several known and novel iteration postulates for contraction are identified, and the relationships among these various postulates are determined. With a convincing presentation of ideas, the book refines and advances existing proposals of belief change, develops novel concepts and approaches, rigorously defines the concepts introduced, and formally proves all technical claims, propositions and theorems, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in this field.

Book Iterative Learning Control for Systems with Iteration Varying Trial Lengths

Download or read book Iterative Learning Control for Systems with Iteration Varying Trial Lengths written by Dong Shen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive and detailed study on iterative learning control (ILC) for systems with iteration-varying trial lengths. Instead of traditional ILC, which requires systems to repeat on a fixed time interval, this book focuses on a more practical case where the trial length might randomly vary from iteration to iteration. The iteration-varying trial lengths may be different from the desired trial length, which can cause redundancy or dropouts of control information in ILC, making ILC design a challenging problem. The book focuses on the synthesis and analysis of ILC for both linear and nonlinear systems with iteration-varying trial lengths, and proposes various novel techniques to deal with the precise tracking problem under non-repeatable trial lengths, such as moving window, switching system, and searching-based moving average operator. It not only discusses recent advances in ILC for systems with iteration-varying trial lengths, but also includes numerous intuitive figures to allow readers to develop an in-depth understanding of the intrinsic relationship between the incomplete information environment and the essential tracking performance. This book is intended for academic scholars and engineers who are interested in learning about control, data-driven control, networked control systems, and related fields. It is also a useful resource for graduate students in the above field.

Book Iteration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Schuldenfrei
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-04-08
  • ISBN : 0429688148
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Iteration written by Robin Schuldenfrei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration. To contextualize iteration within artistic and architectural production, this collection of essays presents a range of close studies in art, architectural and design history, using archival and historiographical research, media theory, photography, material studies, and critical theory. It examines objects as unique yet mutable works by examining their antecedents, successive exemplars, and their afterlives—and thus their role as organizers or repositories of meaning. Key are the roles of writing, the use of media, and relationships between object, image, and reproduction. This volume asks how a closer look at iteration reveals new perspectives into the production of objects and the production of thought alike. Written by an international team of contributors, offering a range of perspectives, it looks broadly at meaning and insight offered by the iteration—for processes of design, for historical research, and for the reception of creative works.

Book    Fail Faster  Succeed Sooner  Embracing Iteration for Innovation

Download or read book Fail Faster Succeed Sooner Embracing Iteration for Innovation written by Shameem Anas and published by Shameem Anas. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner: Embracing Iteration for Innovation Are you tired of the constant pain of setbacks and the agonizing agitation that comes with slow progress? Do you find yourself stuck in a loop of trying and failing, feeling like success is slipping through your fingers? It's time to break free from this cycle and discover the transformative power of iteration. In "Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner: Embracing Iteration for Innovation," you'll unlock the secrets to embracing failures as stepping stones to success, overcoming agitation, and crafting a surefire path to innovation. The Pain of Stagnation We've all been there – the frustration of seeing your efforts fall short, the disappointment of not reaching your goals, and the pain of wondering if your dreams will ever come to fruition. This pain can be paralyzing, causing us to question our abilities and lose sight of our aspirations. But what if there was a way to turn this pain into a catalyst for progress? The Agitation That Holds You Back Agitation is the invisible force that hinders growth and stifles innovation. It's the feeling of restlessness that keeps you awake at night, wondering why your endeavors haven't yielded the results you crave. This constant state of agitation can chip away at your confidence and enthusiasm, making it even harder to push forward. But what if you could channel this agitation into a powerful driving force for change? The Solution: Embracing Iteration "Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner" introduces you to the concept of iteration – a proven methodology used by some of the greatest innovators in history. Instead of fearing failure, you'll learn how to use it to your advantage. This ebook unveils the strategies that successful individuals and organizations employ to iterate, adapt, and ultimately succeed. By embracing iteration, you'll: Transform Pain into Progress: Discover how to harness the lessons hidden within failures, turning them into stepping stones toward your goals. Harness Agitation as Motivation: Learn to redirect the restlessness you feel into a powerful driving force that propels you forward. Ignite Innovation: Uncover the techniques to foster a culture of innovation, where each iteration brings you closer to groundbreaking ideas. Achieve Rapid Success: Implement the tactics that will accelerate your progress, ensuring that each attempt gets you closer to your desired outcome. Unlock Your Path to Success Imagine a life where setbacks are no longer roadblocks but are instead valuable opportunities for growth. Envision tapping into the energy of agitation and using it to fuel your determination. Visualize a world where innovation is a constant companion on your journey to success. "Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner" paints this picture and equips you with the tools to make it a reality. Your Call to Action Don't let pain and agitation continue to hold you back. Take action now and embark on a transformative journey towards success and innovation. This ebook is your guide, your mentor, and your key to unlocking a future filled with achievements beyond your wildest dreams. Embrace iteration, and watch as your failures pave the way for your triumphs. Benefits of Having This Ebook Gain a fresh perspective on failure and how to leverage it for success. Overcome the restlessness and agitation that hinder your progress. Learn the secrets of innovation and how to apply them to your endeavors. Develop a roadmap to achieve your goals faster than ever before.

Book Integral Equations and Iteration Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering

Download or read book Integral Equations and Iteration Methods in Electromagnetic Scattering written by A. B. Samokhin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory and Applications of Iteration Methods

Download or read book The Theory and Applications of Iteration Methods written by Ioannis K. Argyros and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory and applications of Iteration Methods is a very fast-developing field of numerical analysis and computer methods. The second edition is completely updated and continues to present the state-of-the-art contemporary theory of iteration methods with practical applications, exercises, case studies, and examples of where and how they can be used. The Theory and Applications of Iteration Methods, Second Edition includes newly developed iteration methods taking advantage of the most recent technology (computers, robots, machines). It extends the applicability of well-established methods by increasing the convergence domain and offers sharper error tolerance. New proofs and ideas for handling convergence are introduced along with a new variety of story problems picked from diverse disciplines. This new edition is for researchers, practitioners, and students in engineering, economics, and computational sciences.

Book Rollout  Policy Iteration  and Distributed Reinforcement Learning

Download or read book Rollout Policy Iteration and Distributed Reinforcement Learning written by Dimitri Bertsekas and published by Athena Scientific. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to develop in greater depth some of the methods from the author's Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control recently published textbook (Athena Scientific, 2019). In particular, we present new research, relating to systems involving multiple agents, partitioned architectures, and distributed asynchronous computation. We pay special attention to the contexts of dynamic programming/policy iteration and control theory/model predictive control. We also discuss in some detail the application of the methodology to challenging discrete/combinatorial optimization problems, such as routing, scheduling, assignment, and mixed integer programming, including the use of neural network approximations within these contexts. The book focuses on the fundamental idea of policy iteration, i.e., start from some policy, and successively generate one or more improved policies. If just one improved policy is generated, this is called rollout, which, based on broad and consistent computational experience, appears to be one of the most versatile and reliable of all reinforcement learning methods. In this book, rollout algorithms are developed for both discrete deterministic and stochastic DP problems, and the development of distributed implementations in both multiagent and multiprocessor settings, aiming to take advantage of parallelism. Approximate policy iteration is more ambitious than rollout, but it is a strictly off-line method, and it is generally far more computationally intensive. This motivates the use of parallel and distributed computation. One of the purposes of the monograph is to discuss distributed (possibly asynchronous) methods that relate to rollout and policy iteration, both in the context of an exact and an approximate implementation involving neural networks or other approximation architectures. Much of the new research is inspired by the remarkable AlphaZero chess program, where policy iteration, value and policy networks, approximate lookahead minimization, and parallel computation all play an important role.

Book Aggregating clones  colors  equations  iterates  numbers  and tiles

Download or read book Aggregating clones colors equations iterates numbers and tiles written by Janos Aczel and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal aequationes mathematicae publishes papers in pure and applied mathematics and, in particular, articles on functional equations, combinatorics and dynamical systems. Its 50th volume appears in 1995. To mark this occasion, we are publishing in book form a repre sentative collection of outstanding survey papers assembled for our anniversary issue of aequationes mathematicae. The articles by Quackenbush, Targonski and Moszner discuss composition of functions from different points of view: universal algebra, dynamical systems (iteration) and functional equa tions. The Ono-Robbins-Wahl and the Vince papers, on number theory and tiles, respectively, are thematically linked by lattices. Combinatorics, in turn, links the Vince paper with that of Tutte, whose subject is chromatic sums, its tools differential and functional equations. The Paganoni-Ratz and the Forti papers deal with conditional functional equations and with the related topic of stability. Applications to the social and behavioral sciences, in particular to aggregation (and some theory) are presented in the paper by J. Aczel. The aim of the collection is to survey selected fields of current interest. We trust that it will be useful and informative for researchers, teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate stu dents of mathematics, and for those interested in applications in related fields. lanDs Aczel Aequationes Mathematicae 50 (1995) 1 0001-9054/95/020001-01 $1.50 + 0.20/0 University of Waterloo © 1995 Birkhiiuser Verlag, Basel Editorial Volume 50 of Aequationes Mathematicae This is the fiftieth volume of aequationes mathematicae. Not only our modesty but also lack of space keeps us from self-congratulation.